Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-13
MfISSiN LINKS.
MIR. L.abouchere is the greatest smoker
in Parliament and wants everybody to

in Parliament. and wants everybody 10
smoke everywhere.
Chief Justice Waite is q persistent
pedestrian. He never waits for the
street ears or hires Il cab. but daily
walks both ways from his home in the
west end 10 the capital.
1t is not unusual 10 find eggs in fowls
killed for the table. but it is unusual TO
find chickens. This is said, on good
authority. to have happened in Emf
hence, Mo, where q fully developed
chick. enclosed IN q SORT of pouch. was
found inside a hen that was being pre-
pared for the pot.
John Jacob Astor is rated al $780,
900, 900, and is probably the richest
man in America, the great bulk Of his
| property consisting of real estate. Tie
married a Miss Gibbs of Charleston, 5.
c.. and William Waldorf Aston, the en-
minister to Italy. is his only son. The
old gentleman is n liberal liver and
somewhat equity.
The breaking OF dishes is a great item
in the expense account of New YORK
hotels. The greatest amount of break
age is in handling and washing; dishes
may not be actually broken at first, but
they are constantly nicked and tracked,
and, after that, soon go to pieces. W
I of the leading houses sustain a loss OF
at least $4,000 annually in this way.
According to Science it would APP
pear that the bogus butter issue" is
not confined to the United States. A
similar agitation is taking place IN
India, and n bill dealing with the
it.--.. e ,Ioo -r ,1n,tE13 h,tfar
introduced in response to the urgent
demands of the native community,
has recently been passed by the Bengal
Council.
Charles Baker, a Texas farmer, be-
came insane over his wife's death, and
his servants fled. He amused himself
by killing his live stock, and shot every
thing moving, even chickens. HIS
neighbors went TO arrest him, and after
firing on them, he rushed to an upper
room, placed himself at the window
and cut his throat. her turned q pistol
against his head. fired and fell dead.
The princess of Wales lately got from
Paris a winter costume trimmed with a
dark gray fur which she greatly ad-
mired. You are a sportsman she
shortly afterward remarked to her bus
band; tell me what kind of fur this
is?" Il don't hunts rats and MICE" he
replied, laughing; Il leave that to the
sewer men," And now the princess
doesn't like the costume as well as she
did.
Oliver Payne, when visiting his sis
ter in New York, sleeps on a bedstead
which cost / 5000. Secretary Whitney's
friends say that after his father-in-law
had made him q present of this house
in New York he complained that he
could not keep it; that 1t took more
money than he could earn to pay the
taxes, keep servants, and sustain the
place. Thereupon Col. Oliver Payne,
who was 4 bachelor, gave his sister ST.
900, 900 to go TO housekeeping.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, refer
ring to Il contract recently made be-
tween 4 London mining company and
an American manufacturing firm SAYS
it is one of the most remarkable on
record. The company proposes to WorN
extensive gold laihs In Africa, and
needing a largr lot Of machinery in
quircd Ill all Tn: large cities of Europe
and America. and finally placed its or
der with an American firm. There are
to be six stanlp-mllis complete.
A California horse-thief asked 4
rough-Iooking man in Sacramento
where he could find II good criminal
LAWYER. The man showed him q law
yer's office, and stood by while he con-
fessed TO have stolen a horse in San
Joaquin county. The lawyer said the
case looked bad. Then | guess I'll
skip out said the thief. Not to-day"
sand tie rougi-looking man. who was a
special policeman, and who promptly
locked up the ~cAreles' criminal.
Col. Jake Child. the poetic Missourian
who is representing this government in
u ministerial capacity at the court OF
the king of Siam, writes a letter to his
home paper in old Missouri. which
starts off in the following strain: again
| watt you q misSive over the s~un-kissed
seas. from far Orient, land of legends"
etc. 1t is apparent, says tine New York
World, that Col. Jake iiorcScent style
of composition has not been duIled by
his brief residence among the prosaic
Slamese.
An eastern merchant says the amount
of goods stolen from large dry goods
HOUSES turing Il Efaf IS lnStgnllicdlL
Professional shopl f.crs, he says, are
scarce. and they do not last long, for
their actions while making 4 raid ex-
pose them to the clerks. 1t is an easy
thing to detect thieves. Shoplifters are
always women; men are SO out of place
in Il dry goods store. Women are not
likely to become skillful thieves, and if
they do their greed generally leads
them to try to carry away too many
things.
Recently Oscar Kidd, of Port Jervis,
N. Y, dreamed that a watch, wrapped
in cotton in a tin box, was secreted in a
cellar of n certain honse IN that town.
The owner of the house laughed ct
Oscar, who wanted to look for the
watch. but finally went down to the
cellar with him. and sure enough Kidd
found the watch just as he had dream
ed. Then the owner of the house
claimed the watch because it had been
found On his premises, and he kept it,
too